2. I wish they would. This CERTAINLY qualifies!

3. Just on statistical probabilities alone, you can predict that about half of the people viewing

the ad will receive that suggestion and the reception of that suggestion will vary from relatively weak, and subject to counter influence, up to the maximum strength of such a suggestion. These theoretical probabilities are referred to as a normal distribution (a theoretical entity, a.k.a. the Bell Curve, based upon numbers of exposures to, roughly, an "independent variable") and it is what all advertising is built upon and why so much money is spent upon mass-marketing.

There is almost never just one interpretation of an event, no matter what the NRA says, and as history has shown us time and time again, especially in the case of the kind of violence we are talking about here, even, relatively speaking, only a few maximally suggestible people can have enormous effects.

17. Except it's A-OK to "foster hatred" through speech.

When does hate speech cross the line?When it is made with the intent to incite imminent lawless action, and is likely to incite imminent lawless action. The standard is very strict in practice. For example, merely saying "If they drafted me, the first man I'd want in my sights is the President" is protected speech.